World Women's Volleyball League Finals 1/4 finals have ended with 2 games, and the other 2 games will be held today. The showdown between Chinese Women's Volleyball Team and Italian Women's Volleyball Team will start at 8 o'clock tonight, and will be broadcast live on CCTV5 channel . This is the first real test for Cai Bin and after taking office. Only by winning can we retain the hope of competing for the finals championship. A score of 3-2 is the bottom line, thus ensuring that we can advance to the top four.
At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the Chinese women's volleyball team, as the defending champion, was eliminated from the group early and its performance was sluggish. Lang Ping also resigned as head coach, and Cai Bin took over. Now participating in the World Women's Volleyball League, the two main attackers of Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning have been absent, which has reduced the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team. Of course, this is also a critical period for the replacement of old and new teams, which can prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympics. .
In the round-robin stage of the World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team started high and then went low. After losing consecutive games to the American women's volleyball team , the Japanese women's volleyball team, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team , their strength was clearly at a disadvantage. In the end, they ranked fourth in the standings and advanced to the finals. Their first-round opponent was European powerhouse Italian women's volleyball team.
The finals adopt a single elimination system, so whoever wins will advance. If the Chinese women's volleyball team loses, they can only go home early. This is not the result that the players want to see.
Therefore, the bottom line for the Chinese women's volleyball team is a 3-2 score. As long as it defeats the Italian women's volleyball team, it can advance to the top four and retain the hope of competing for the championship. Considering that after the Chinese women's volleyball team or the Italian women's volleyball team advance to the top four, the semi-final opponent is the winner between Turkish women's volleyball team and Thai women's volleyball team . Therefore, the Chinese women's volleyball team eliminates the Italian women's volleyball team and can basically go straight to the finals.
According to the 14-man roster announced by the Chinese women's volleyball team, Gao Yi, Chen Peiyan, Wang Yizhu are expected to become the best players, as the backup to limit the Italian women's volleyball team's main attacker Egnu.
After the previous 12 games, the main lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team is basically clear, including main attackers Li Yingying and Jin Ye , secondary attackers Yuan Xinyue and Wang Yuanyuan , support Gong Xiangyu , setter Diao Linyu , free agent Wang Weiyi , to eliminate the Italian women's volleyball team, Cai Bin needs to be surprised.
Before the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team received good news in advance. The Italian women's volleyball team announced the participating list early, allowing coach Cai Bin to study the opponent's situation in advance, thereby increasing the probability of winning.
In addition, since lost in the semi-finals of the 2018 Women's Volleyball World Championships, the Chinese women's volleyball team has maintained a complete victory in the next five matches between the two teams. Coupled with the consistent unyielding spirit of the women's volleyball girls, domestic fans believe it will bring surprises .
